June 01: No man has ever listened himself out of a job.

On this day, 01 Jun...

In 1869, Thomas Edison of Boston received his first patent. It was for an "electrogram vote recorder." The device was the first of its kind, and would enable a legislator to register a vote either for or against an issue by turning a switch to the right or left.

1874 - East India Company was dissolved.

1880 -The first pay telephone service in the United States, for public use went into service. 

1935 - Driving test & license plates introduced in England. The first person in Britain to take the test and pass is Mr R.E.L.BEERE.  His son still has the certificate 00001 signed on behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport.   

1938 - Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.

1939 -1st boxing match to be televised; Lon Nova defeats Max Baer.

1946 - Television licences were first issued in Britain costing £2 and included radio (radio-only licences then cost £1) and were sold at Post Offices. Television services had been suspended during WW II. A Mickey Mouse cartoon was being shown when TV service was suddenly blacked out for defence reasons on 1 Sep 1939. That same cartoon was shown on 8 Jun 1946 when television re-opened to cover the Victory Parade. 

1947 - The development of photosensitive glass was announced publicly in Corning, N.Y.  The glass is crystal clear, but exposure to ultraviolet light followed by heat treatment forms submicroscopic metal particles creating an image within the glass. This is believed to be the most durable form of photographic medium, and to be as permanent as the glass itself.

1947 - The Doomsday Clock appeared for the first time, as the fourth quadrant of a clock face with its hands at 7 min.  to midnight. It was the background image on the cover of the June issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. From then to the present, the Doomsday Clock image has been on the cover of the Bulletin, though the hands over the years have been shown moving forward or back to convey how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction. Midnight represents Doomsday. The closest approach, two minutes to midnight began on the Sep 1953 cover. (In  Dec 1991, the clock was set at 17 min. to midnight marking the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).

1955 - India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.

1958 - Following a long political crisis over the revolt in Algeria, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to head a new emergency government as a virtual dictator for a 6 month period to bring the country back together. 

1959 - The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.

1961 - Regular FM stereo radio broadcasting with a multiplexed signal began in the U.S.

1972 - Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).

1980  - 1st transmission of CNN, the Cable News Network.

1990 - In a historic meeting between President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev they sign an agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of reserves of chemical weapons. 

1992 - The E-Lamp, an electronic electrodeless 20-year lightbulb, was announced by Pierre Villere. The E-Lamp is illuminated when radio waves excite a phosphor coating, an efficient process that can save as much as 75% of lighting costs.

2001 - The king, queen and seven other members of the royal family in Nepal are shot dead after the heir to the throne Crown Prince Dipendra went on a rampage with a gun before turning it on himself. 

2014 - India officially divided the state of Andhra Pradesh to create the nation's 29th state, Telangana; Hyderabad will act as joint capital for both states for the next decade.

Born

1929 - Nargis, actor.

1970 - R. Madhavan, actor, producer, and screenwriter.

1985 – Dinesh Karthik, cricketer.

RIP

1984 - Nana Palsikar, actor.

1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, politician, 6th President of India. 

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